Part of the challenge of doing a night scene, was highlighting the unique features of your architecture, carefully guiding where your audience’s attention wanders, but without overdoing it. For this image I had a very hard time choosing the point of focus to light up, because my subject spans across 2/3 of the image, and every part of it is kind of important for the overall concept. If I lit up only the terminal, which I did in the beginning, then I have wasted 2/3 of the image for the transportation tube that could barely be seen; if I lit up everything equally bright, then the focus is lost.
Everything was a hard stuck until today at work, l saw this GIF of neutral signals transmission, which inspired me to translate the idea to my scene lighting. It isn’t just visually applicable, but conceptually as well. Since my entry was focusing around the idea of the Hyperloop terminal that connects between DC and NYC in 2040, the capsule therefore is a metaphorto the neutral transmission signal, that carries electrical information between the nerve fibre or axon. When a capsule passes through a segment of the transportation tube at night, that segment is going to brighten up and it follows the capsule’s location as it moves. With a short departure time between capsules, visually the transportation tube will look like pulses of electrical signals, constantly sending streams of bright light in and out of the terminal.
Hope I have used the right metaphor and explained the concept simple enough